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- Olofsson, Arne,1943Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Engelska institutionen,Department of English (author)
Just how wrong is There seems to be + a plural noun phrase? Prescription vs. attested usage in the area of S-V concord
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- On the basis of material from the CobuildDirect corpus it is demonstrated that native speakers of English often use "unorthodox" singular concord in sentences with existential there plus the catenative verb seem plus a plural notional subject. A closing comment deals with pedagogical implications for the teaching of English.
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- HUMANIORA Språk och litteratur Studier av enskilda språk hsv//swe
- HUMANITIES Languages and Literature Specific Languages hsv//eng
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- existential there
- catenative verb
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- Göteborgs universitetEngelska institutionen (creator_code:org_t)
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- In:Moderna Språk101:1, s. 2-80026-8577
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